Renaissance translations of the Psalms are maybe the closest English poetry comes to what we encounter in the religious paintings … More
Tag: meter
132. (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
What to do with meter? The question for poets is simple: employ it, reinvent it, or leave it alone. For … More
82. (Philip Larkin)
After reading Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall,” a friend half-recalled Paul Fussell’s opinion that verse in a trochaic meter could never be … More
19. (John Milton)
The wryly and slyly passionate William Empson in Some Versions of Pastoral, at the end of the chapter on Milton and … More
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